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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 365faa6928..a4c6543bd2 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ line.
=item Can't exec "%s": %s
-(W exec) An system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the
+(W exec) A system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the
named program for the indicated reason. Typical reasons include: the
permissions were wrong on the file, the file wasn't found in
C<$ENV{PATH}>, the executable in question was compiled for another
@@ -1629,11 +1629,11 @@ two from 1 to 32 (or 64, if your platform supports that).
=item Illegal octal digit %s
-(F) You used an 8 or 9 in a octal number.
+(F) You used an 8 or 9 in an octal number.
=item Illegal octal digit %s ignored
-(W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal number.
+(W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in an octal number.
Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.
=item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s
@@ -1837,7 +1837,7 @@ L<perlfunc/listen>.
=item lstat() on filehandle %s
-(W io) You tried to do a lstat on a filehandle. What did you mean
+(W io) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle. What did you mean
by that? lstat() makes sense only on filenames. (Perl did a fstat()
instead on the filehandle.)
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ the result of the value of the environment variable PERLIO.
=item perlio: invalid separator character %s in attribute list
(S) When pushing layers onto the Perl I/O system, something other than a
-colon or whitespace was seen between the elements of an layer list.
+colon or whitespace was seen between the elements of a layer list.
If the previous attribute had a parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that
list was terminated too soon.
@@ -3284,13 +3284,13 @@ L<perlop/"Quote and Quote-like Operators">.
=item Substitution pattern not terminated
-(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a s/// or s{}{}
+(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of an s/// or s{}{}
construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level.
Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error.
=item Substitution replacement not terminated
-(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a s/// or s{}{}
+(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of an s/// or s{}{}
construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level.
Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error.